This blog post is part of in-depth blog series on the working with Git command line and Git in Visual Studio. You can find the previous blog post here. In previous blog post, we discussed what is git rebase, how it is different from git merge and when to use the rebase command. In this blog post, we’ll follow that up by using git rebase commands at git command line and understand it further.

Re-creating Problem Scenario

For starters, we have two branches named master and newQuickFix branch in our

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This blog post is part of in-depth blog series on the Git and Visual Studio. You can find the previous blog post here. In this blog post, we’ll understand what is git rebase, how it is different from git merge and when to use the rebase command. The git rebase command is one of those commands which can work magic for managing the future development of a product by simplifying git history but it can be disastrous if not used carefully. Essentially, git merge and git rebase do the same thing, i.e., bring the contents of two branches together. However both of these commands execute this change, in entirely different ways.  Continue reading “Understanding Git Rebase and when to use it” →

In git, branch is just a pointer to the one of the commits. So you can create and remove branches very easily. Most of the time, you can select commit of your choice and create a new branch from their and delete the one you do not need. However, sometime you create one branch out of master, intending to merge it to master but later everyone starts using the same and it becomes kind of master. We ran into this situation with one of the source code repository. So to get back on track, we needed to swap the contents of the both branches.  Continue reading “Swap master branch with another branch in Git” →